Meta Tag confusion

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by sakib25, Aug 16, 2010.

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    i am using some meta tags in every pages of my website(only HTML)....

    1. <meta name="verify-v1" content="slsk6Athv26zQcO6lp+iRA3wq2+WlYL8GuBT5eebUcM=" />

    2. <meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />

    3. <meta name="google-site-verification" content="jJjsDMwp6Io2rn-9QyHnJWLRQBS8tjF8laoGPlBA3Xk" />

    4. <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

    is there any problem???!!!!!!

    i am new in website design. pls reply...
     
    sakib25, Aug 16, 2010 IP
  2. bavington

    bavington Peon

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    Hi Skib25,

    To be honest, the only one that you really need on all of your pages is the content type declaration. The Robots Meta Tag is completely unnecessary as the search engine bots will do this automatically, you don't need to ask them to crawl the page.

    With Google Site Verification, if you choose to use the META tag method, you don't need it on every page, just the homepage.

    Hope that helps.

    James.
     
    bavington, Aug 17, 2010 IP
  3. Valineo

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    What bavington said... on the other hand, I wouldn't care too much about meta tags because in most cases they are irrelevant for anything...
     
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  4. sakib25

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    Thanks... i got my ans.....
     
    sakib25, Aug 18, 2010 IP
  5. AmitSolanki1188

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    hi, just i want to know about <meta name="robots" content="all"> .
     
    AmitSolanki1188, Dec 3, 2010 IP
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    @ AmitSolanki1188

    It means robots will behave in default way.

    They will index your pages and follow the links from this page to find other pages.

    You can have detailed information @ metatags.org/meta_name_robots

    :)
     
    Last edited: Dec 3, 2010
    weblineindia, Dec 3, 2010 IP
  7. Sickthing

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    You can also link your webmaster tools account via GA now. Setup the GA and then when in Webmaster tools choose that as your validation method. Much easier and cleaner.

    the robots is needed only if you want to block some pages.
     
    Sickthing, Dec 4, 2010 IP
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    This link wud ge a great help for you buddy, go thru this link.....I hope you this help you in every way

    seoconsultants.com/meta-tags/robots/
     
    pauljhonsun, Dec 13, 2010 IP
  9. CSM

    CSM Active Member

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    This is not true.

    description, keywords, verifications, ... are still important! There are a lot of search engines that still "read" them.

    
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    Code (markup):
    is a very important meta tag.

    This is not 100% correct. Bots try to feth robots.txt first (afaik) and will then look for the meta tag.
    Since there are a lot of search engines this meta tag should not be deleted.

    A good resource : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatags
     
    CSM, Dec 13, 2010 IP